Lord. Behold, thou shalt conceive and shalt bring forth a Son, Alleluia.
From Christmas until Candlemas
Ant. When Thou wert wondrously born of a virgin, then were the Scriptures fulfilled: Thou earnest down like the rain upon the fleece, that Thou mightest save mankind. We praise Thee, our God.
Ant. The bush which Moses saw * unconsumed we acknowledge to be thine admirable virginity, which thou didst keep inviolate; Mother of God, plead for us.
PSALM CXXI
Song of the pilgrims in honor of Jerusalem
I was glad at the things that were said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord.
Our feet were standing within thy courts, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, which is built as a city, that is compact together.
For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord: an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
